Willi von Kehlmann

Willi von Kehlmann (17 October 1775-24 June 1857) was a Prussian politician.

Biography
Willi von Kehlmann was born on 17 October 1775 in Grunberg in Schlesien in the Prussian Empire province of Silesia (present-day Zielona Gora, Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland) to a German Protestant family. Kehlmann was of the middle class, and became a lawyer in 1796. Kehlmann was later drafted into the Prussian Army to fight in the French Revolutionary Wars, and in the early 1800s he served in the campaigns against Napoleon in Hannover as a Captain. Kehlmann rose to the rank of Major by 1809, and he distinguished himself in the 1812 Russian Campaign as a supporting officer of Napoleon's army in the war with the Russian Empire. After the campaign, however, he helped the Russians as a military advisor and commanded a regiment of their forces in the recapture of Poland.

After the war, Kehlmann was a member of the Prussian administration in Stolp (Slupsk) in a greatly-reduced German Poland. He died on 24 June 1857 in Danzig (Gdansk).